but camillo show where you get the real headlines with none of the mercy i can live in washington d.c. now fears from japan after the threat of radiation spreads here to the u.s. and as the world waits to find out what the devastation will be i don't know how the globalization made assault more vulnerable to the fallout of disasters and it seems that the u.s. has had a change of heart when it comes to libya originally lawmakers didn't seem to want to intervene in the country at least not some but today the u.n. security council is set to vote on a no fly zone and if the u.s.

gets their way maybe even airstrikes so we'll look into america's one eighty on the situation and police brutality on the rise after yet another botched raid this time in d.c. we want to know when is enough enough should we continue these raids if the police just can't get their facts straight and efforts for wall street reform have well they've had a wall five new piece of legislation have come forward from the g.o.p. dismantling key elements of the dot frank bill so i'll tell you what's on the chopping block and will find out who the g.o.p. is really sticking up for and we'll tell you about the latest project from the government but this one is designed for social media we'll have details on the online persona management service and how social media can help spread pro-american propaganda and catch jihad it's all discuss all that and more on tonight's show but first onto our top story. after surviving a nine point zero magnitude earthquake a massive tsunami now living amongst threats of radiation the people of japan are

in crisis now so how are people surviving while they're surrounded by devastation artie's ivor van it gives us all the details on his experiences from the ground. the sheer force of the tsunami was hard to comprehend until i saw this vehicles on houses it impossible angles it was as if the ground surface had been ripped off. this woman told us they've never experienced such a powerful earthquake before and she feared for her life we weren't allowed out of the car at the coast the police were on high alert and suddenly there was panic. warnings of a five metre high wall of water heading our way go go go this man shouted at us we sped inland as fast as possible chased by others the last wave took just nine minutes after the earthquake to reach eight kilometers inland we didn't have long this was a false alarm but those already on their knees are bracing themselves for more of

the relief center in sendai the newly homeless a given blankets and a cardboard sheet all nineteen floors of this building a full with everyone from infants for the elderly. and i spent here was bitterly cold and virtually sleepless some could be here for weeks everyone had a story to tell about their moment of terror. that way or as we hear it in your. first an earthquake then the tsunami now radiation road blocks around fukushima appeared as early as saturday since then he has been steadily building just like the keys it took an hour to get past this jan of cars for wanting to fill up the air in fuel shortages it may not be visible his theory for the anxieties prompted essential stockpiling as the threat escalates more and more leaving i was traveling with his crew from new zealand when we heard there

been a fourth explosion at the plant quickly changed to an exit strategy at niigata i met this young family from sendai a baby boy i was just five days old when the earthquake struck. the only thing i thought of when it happened was i have to save my baby how do you feel about the radiation i said. that's why i have left sendai i'm scared for my baby and i don't want him to get ill it can have a very negative impact on him on a train to tokyo it was more of the same this tour is to change his flight out to the earliest of able to get. this. when it comes to radiation the people i've met year on shore the government's telling the full story and most aren't willing to wait around to find out either bennett's r.t. if you. fears of radiation spreading outside of japan are already beginning to

circle our ports say that radiation plume is to reach california by tomorrow the f.d.a. has announced that it will be monitoring food imported from japan for radiation and now people are wondering if the world's food supply could be at risk financial markets are also echoing those fears so as the world watches and waits we have to wonder if some of the disruptions on a global scale could have been avoided if we've created an industrial chain that puts us all at risk no matter where earthquake or tsunami may strike discusses with us is barry lynn director of new america's markets enterprise and resiliency initiative and also author of the book end of the line the rise and coming fall of the global corporation barry thanks so much for joining us tonight now let's look at what's going on in japan of course how is this going to end up affecting the world financially of course this entire situation is still developing but the markets have been up and down like a rollercoaster and now we hear that perhaps the world food supplies may be

contaminated how do we see this playing out or this point is it's way too early to really figure out how bad it's going to be in this because we still don't know two things we don't know whether there's going to be a meltdown which will make the situation much worse and we also don't know how bad the russians are within the industrial system it's going to take weeks if not months to really figure out how disruptive these systems were and what are we seeing already come into play at the moment right as certain companies tell their employees to leave the country to leave japan but what we're seeing right now is that you know if if you didn't have a nuclear crisis these companies would be rushing experts from outside the country indeed you pay to help fix the systems the machinery that was knocked over that was knocked out and what they're doing is the exact opposite right so what we're seeing is that a situation that we should be making better is at least for the time being is going to be no matter what's going to get worse but is this something that you can see is unique to the situation in japan. this earthquake and the tsunami and the nuclear

fallout or any time now around the world when we have this kind of disaster strikes especially and i'm more developed country right it's actually one of the top economies in the world does it send this chain reaction probably yes i mean the this is a we live in a world that is radically different than it was twenty years ago twenty years ago every country pretty much had its own industrial system when there was very little integration among nations but what we now have is a system that's basically shared by all of the nations together and there's certain beauty to that but there's also a major problem which is that whenever there's a major impact a shock one place in the in the world it could be in taiwan could be in korea could be india and china that shock then is transmitted every place almost instantaneously and is that an accident because of the way the globalization of this industrial system was supposed to work wasn't supposed to give us more flexibility rather than make us more vulnerable well that's the thing is that people really expected when we started this process of globalization that we didn't

bring more players into the system we'd have more flexibility and the exact opposite happened because we made a couple i'm a stay this one is that we start as nations we start thinking about our dependencies overseas and that was very different than we had been before we earlier days all nations had said well we're going to have at least two or three suppliers for whatever important things that we need and also in many of our country we start enforcing our anti-monopoly laws so before that we would have four five or six local sources of some product now in many countries really have one so the put these two together and we went from a system that where you would had many many options to a system where often you only have one source of supply and you think that we see that too specially when it comes to the energy industry it's nuclear energy or call or natural gas but you know the funny thing about energy is that energy is a much more resilient system so you. oriel even though we really view all as

a major strategic issue we sort of stand entire fleets and to the various parts of the world to ensure that we we have this flow of oil the fact is that you can cut off any major source of oil in the world system would remain largely untouched with the industrial system interest we allowed for much greater specialization we have much higher risk within the industrial system so how do we go about fixing that you know is it too late are we too far into this game too deep but you know it's not easy to fix i mean the simple idea would be to figure out what we want what we want is a resilient system we want to system that if there is an earthquake someplace or there is a revolution in china tomorrow we want to make sure that that revolution doesn't take place in the middle of our industrial system on which we depend so it's the goal is to make sure that we're there it's a particular chip whether it's

a particular chemical that we always had three four five different places we're sourcing the chip or the chemical now wouldn't have to be here in the united states and then have to be in any one particular country just need to spread it out except of course the problem is that even if you have more than one country it's probably just going to be one company that controls and there i want to thank you very much for joining us and of course we'll continue to monitor the situation in japan but we are now seeing some of the parts of the system thank you for having. what's clear by now out of the disaster at the fukushima nuclear plant is going to have devastating effects the workers at the power plant are racing to fix this crisis as it unfolds many are asking where the agency responsible for keeping track of these plants is an agency is called the international atomic energy agency the i.a.e.a. and as our teams even the guy who score imports its role in this whole mess seems to be pretty minor so far. i missed reports that radiation levels in the japanese

capital could be up to eleven times the norm people scramble to get away from the invisible killer here in tokyo series do seem to be less visible usual at the epicenter of the plans to clear disaster if the people remain struggling to keep the reactors under control but wait where is the international atomic energy agency the exponents of the peaceful use of nuclear power there here in japan arriving four days after the first explosion at the nuclear plant the i.a.e.a. as well as a promoter of nuclear power whose job is not to necessarily be able to come to the rescue of failed attempts at maintaining quality design and and protecting the public from natural disasters such as revealing that here although they'll sell that message when the train approved when the proof is in the polling you can clearly see that the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government the very people who should be keeping tabs on the situation seem to have barely little direct involvement in it in fact until now and the only source of

information was the japanese government for years they were going to zation has been busy with their mission statement to maintain nuclear energy for peaceful means in two thousand and five and need increased inspections of raining facilities the organization and its then chairman buried i was awarded a nobel peace prize but by the looks of it concerns over a possible un sanctioned uses of nuclear energy by countries like iran seem to have overshadowed the clear and present dangers of already existing nuclear power plants in countries like japan and now if they remain in workers who have to battle fire smoke and radiation at what remains of the fukushima power plant there's only fifty people allowed on the plants of the moms and their work and fifty minutes shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things going. hence because remote control installations have gone down the main operator room is is

not usable because of high radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst with all six reactors showing signs of an ability only if two people remain face to face with a problem putting their lives at risk rather high in my view dorothy's seem to prefer to watch on from a safe distance in about. tokyo. still ahead tonight as the u.s. moving closer towards air strikes in libya coming up or of course in the ground a possible vote on the use of military force in the region and cases of excessive force by police departments around the u.s. appear to be on the rise was the media always ignored that's right. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right now.

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spoken out against leaders of egypt and of libya but what about bahrain obama hasn't said much of anything when it comes to the protests in bahrain at least not publicly even though there is clear evidence of forces shooting at protesters there so why the double standard parties laura lister has more on why that might be. but . god is great. the final words of this purported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by behind me security forces since martial law was declared this week the bahraini government has crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. clearing them out of pearl square where they'd been demonstrating. and viral videos though the details can't be confirmed have been surfacing on the internet appearing to show police shooting protesters. point blank it's reminiscent of another uprising against an autocrat and i want to

address the situation in libya when images in reports of violence against protesters they could doppies hands in libya reached the u.s. we saw the president stand. as lost legitimacy to lead. early on president obama called for plans heard no fly zone over libya now here at the united nations the security council has since taken the lead on that but meanwhile the united states has already said warships along with humanitarian aid in libya sir action it's like the top economic sanctions on the country essentially freezing it out of the u.s. banking system and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more code word role in the north african conflict and opposition that the cia has for thirty years is right now. according to people in direct contact with activists on the ground in bahrain they too are begging for

help from the u.s. . the u.s. has a military base in the island country the navy's powerful fifth fleet and six thousand troops are stationed. there and in response to the brutal crackdown the u.s. president has wielded his authority to pick up the phone and call it pain of bahrain the president expressed his deep concern over the violence in bahrain and stressed the need for maximum restraint words the forces on the ground now backed by one thousand saudi arabian troops don't appear to be listening to critics say the talk doesn't amount to any help for the bahraini people it amounts to this absolutely there's a double standard in the way the u.s. deals with friend versus foe unlikely b.-a brain is a strong u.s.

ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's also all about geo political military strategy the u.s. says a lot of military assets in the persian gulf right now we want to make sure they stay there u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and at the cost of the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the blood is worthless and the libyan blood is more important it's just a critical stand. that goes against everything we believe in in this country but you're looking at american. helicopter gunships you know on armed protesters in the capital gray and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind auto pratt's. or against depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives or in mr r.t. new york. after weeks of debate and pushback and caution today the u.n.

security council is finally set to vote on a resolution for a no fly zone but apparently it's not just a no fly zone anymore last night u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that a no fly zone would have only a limited use the u.s. was working very hard to pass a new resolution which would authorize the use of airstrikes so one sudden change of heart by the u.s. to fill us in on what's been going on behind the scenes i'm joined live by r.t. correspondent lauren lyster lauren thanks so much for joining us i know i know that we're still waiting for this vote to happen basically as we're speaking right now but are there any details that emerged about this resolution what it would mean you know i've heard them say essentially that would stop just short of boots on the ground. well and it's still unclear whether or not it will even take place tonight francis who's been saying that that's expected at six but as we know russia is not on board with the no fly zone there are still many things to be laid out and we

don't know exactly what's in this resolution they have not given a draft out or leave one that crosses seen to my knowledge so i think really what we know though is what some diplomats and some officials are saying you mentioned susan rice and we've heard clinton come out saying that the u.s. is now pushing for something beyond the no fly zone they want additional measures additional sanctions that would protect civilians on the ground and on the seas so this would require additional forces or additional measures that would enforce that but they we have heard that phrase of course that you mentioned that this stop short of boots on the ground but that other things will be considered but we don't know what exactly what is in that resolution we do know that the u.s. is pushing for more than an initially it seemed that it would be this goes they are pushing for beyond a no fly zone along with other western allies now how do we think this came about because it first the u.s. or at least barack obama and hillary clinton were you know being very cautious here they weren't saying that they wanted a no fly zone they weren't along with that suddenly we need even more than

a no fly zone it's not enough how do the whole change within a matter of you know twenty four hours. that's the million dollar question and it is a great one i mean over the weekend we saw the arab league come out and say that they wanted a no fly zone so that was believed to be a pivotal role and we heard secretary of state clinton talking about that in interviews even yesterday but that was over the weekend and now all of a sudden we see the u.s. pushing for more than a no fly zone so some believe some critics say that obama there he's had criticism over not doing enough there's been criticism that he's not been very certain or decisive and that this is kind of the u.s. is attempt to milieu or a pattern to be more decisive and to play more of a role and take more of the lead some believe that the u.s. is essentially crumbling to pressure from countries such as france and britain that are really pushing aggressively for a no fly zone especially france and their actions that they want taken against libya so it could be any number of things but it's really not clear what has

changed in the last twenty four hours that that has really made this go from no fly zone that the u.s. supported but one of the u.n. to take the lead on to now pushing or supporting much more than a no fly zone additional measures additional sanctions that would stop short of boots on the ground now or and very quickly we just saw your report you know supposing the situation in the rhetoric that we've heard with bahrain and libya has the u.n. said anything any whispers armoring there. well there have been statements released on bahrain there have been statements from bonking moon concerned about saudi arabian forces now in the country also statements from the human rights person at the u.n. who has said that they're very concerned about breaking international law concerned about reports of killings concerned about reports that hospitals have been taken over and about the possible human rights violations but beyond words we haven't heard much ok laurent thanks so much for filling us in. this month an

eighty six year old man who lives here in d.c. heard banging on his apartment door before he could unlock it a group of police officers knock that door down and eighty six year old robert smith with it they didn't realize they have the wrong apartment they call the ambulance for smith and apparently they never even apologized for this mistake and rape there's another example of police brutality in america of excessive force where it's not need it but i don't see the media talking about it as a systemic problem rather than just a one off incident why didn't they even mention the international day against police brutality which we spoke about on this show days ago and why don't more cops speak up when their colleagues act in the wrong here this passed away this is rapping about the senior editor at reason magazine and reason dot com thanks so much for joining us good to be here as i mentioned you know just days ago we were talking about this issue because it is a grand systemic problem that we see not only in america there's an international day against police brutality but i feel like every time the media will bring you

and usually it's the local news right they'll bring you the story about this eighty six year old man they act like it's just a one off in thing why don't they put it together well i mean you know we have a police reporter in one particular town or an event like this happens and for that reporter maybe it is a one off incident you know it's the first time on their beat that this is happened but the national media i think is really job dropped the ball on this because these these raids been going on for about thirty five years now there's been a massive increase in the number of these sorts of violent raids for what are essentially nonviolent consensual crimes and so a lot of them do go wrong just because of the sheer number of them that are carried out so that i do think i mean the media tends to notice things that happen in the street here and now and things that trends that develop over you know decades you know it takes them a while to pick up on it but you know i have noticed it's getting better when one of these raids happens now get a call from a local reporter will find you know some of the research that i've done on this and

ask for some context. i do think it's getting it's getting better but you're right i think you have someone looking at the back story a little bit not getting the short attention span that we normally see all the time but what about you know. elected officials right even on at the local level are you supposed to be keeping law enforcement in their cities or their counties accountable you're exactly right and i think this is really where the problem is that these are policies it's politicians are the people who are supposed to be setting these policies are supposed to be holding the leaders of police departments accountable to their home their officers accountable and that's really where we need to focus the criticism here. it's very difficult for a politician to take a position that's going to look like he's either anti police or soft on crime and i don't think taking a position that that i do on these ranges that they're overused is either of those things i think it's saying that we should only use the appropriate level of force given the suspected crime that the police are and in forcing. so

there i think there is. a lack of accountability on top of the protocol that is you know this is also an issue that straddle that straddles for the partisan divide right that the republican senators for very long were but in the democrats got a lot of support from from the police unions i mean it is really working class union and a lot of the solution is tend to support democrats picked in the correction level boss at the local level so there's really no sort of constituency for holding them accountable and i think that's a big problem as well all these finally burst trying to hear some talking from the republican side of you know examining this war on drugs that we have in america going on again some people are finally talking about it you've also written recently about the fact that you know maybe the reason this happens often is because there's no incentive for these police officers the ones that mays excessive force may be in the wrong to really stop doing it you know what you call this blue wall of silence tell us more about it yeah it's a lot of sciences it's i mean it's proven there's this kind of code among police officers that you never testify against

a fellow police on. sir that you never read out a fellow police officer and if so it is a huge problem and you know you want to talk about the lack of accountability you know it's very very difficult for a police officer to get fired i mean you have to sort of blatantly violate the law you know sort of excessive force you can build a long record on that and never get fired the one way that you can be certain to get fired as a police officer is to report misconduct of a fellow police officer that's when they're held accountable and i think that's i mean talk about incentive scheme that's really where the problem is i think that's incredible and it's that moment you would think that perhaps the police officers you in are they behind the guy that was the whistleblower and they decided to stand up for law and order and be a good citizen or quite the opposite yeah it's quite the opposite and i mean i've you know about once a month i write about a story where there was some police misconduct and there were a couple of good cops who reported the misconduct and they tend to get worse

punishment than the ones who committed the actual misconduct and the police union you know there's a reason why the police union sort of perpetuates the blue wall of silence because it's you know their job is to protect police officers. and so i mean there was there were in the case of new mexico where there was a bit of an incident and some reports of misconduct and then beat the president the police and the national actually sent a letter to the sheriff saying apologizing for the police officer who ratted out the police officer who used excessive force so it's a problem it's horrible it's horrible radley thank you so much for joining us today to have you in the studio and i'm sure there's going to be another raid gone wrong somewhere a very serious will be talking about it again sam thanks thanks to you and i still to come tonight he wants to say you're fired to president obama and now he's committing a burglary i told her just ahead and bankers caused the collapse of the wall street more than three years ago so why are republicans in the house now trying to dismantle perform i support the concept.